#strike books

[donttempttme-blog]

I really like the Cormoran Strike DETECTIVE series. I started reading the books at CAREER OF EVIL, thinking it was a DETECTIVE series. I went back and read the earlier books and joined groups to discuss STRIKE among like-minded people. To my horror: most other people had started at book one and bc "R was there from the beginning" [and they have the brains of 12 year olds] were treating the series like a romance with a bit of detective stuff instead of the other way round 🤦‍♀️

And despite all her BS interviews where JKR said just wanting....to have it be about the writing [maybe she did] I think she MEANT it to be a romance, disguised as a detective story, the whole time. Especially after ploughing through 🖤. The fandom in 🖤 is so similar to Tom Burke and STRIKE fandom. Not as viciously harmful but just as toxic. Twatter is JKR favourite platform. Her worst fans are there. All the rest of the fandom promote the romance. If you go against the narrative, you are vilified. I'll finish 🖤 and try the next one. But I've been sold a pup. The books evolve, sure. But I was sold a dodgy bill of goods, from the outset. I thought I was getting a detective series with 2 good friends. Not a romance whose tedium I would have to navigate between cases. And a junior partner [with a genuine knack for the work] that has gone from temp to making life threatening and agency threatening decisions in such a short period of time. Especially given her actual life experiences are abysmally lacking for someone her age. Plus, she is taking over a lot of Cs' actual work in the TV adaptations. 🤦‍♀️

Credit to creators

[cormfan-blog]

The STRIKE book covers were originally published showing a generic street, with a fence railing and the silhouette of a man in a coat.

The more recent re-issues are now all in the same format as the new publications. Thus retro reinforcing the idea that Robin was an equal from the start; which she wasn't. For CC and SW, the agency was a one-man show. Why is the history on these covers being "re-written" to show something that didn't exist?

[tlbburke]

Credit to creators.

I've had to start my accounts AGAIN after my phone was compromised. 🤬🙄 I can't find my old tumblr accounts ATM so I just figured I'd start again. I'll stumble across them. LP2 was great. They should start filming that PoS 🖤 next year and maybe TRG, at the same time. FURIOSA is due out next year. Fuknose what is happening with the american project. 😳

[robinblue]

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas - I was very lucky to receive the box set of paperbacks! They’re such good quality and satisfying floppy paper😍 no need to break the pretty spines!

Aaaaand Robin’s perfume! I’ve wanted it ever since TB came out, and oof it’s such a gorgeous scent, Jo really described it perfectly with ‘warm musky skin, and bruised flowers’ it’s beautiful!!

[thegreendress]

👀👀👀

[donttempttme-blog]

Just watching CAREER OF EVIL again. Robin really starts showing her stupidity and immaturity in this series.

She's just been made partner in a job that she supposedly loves and wants. AND they've been sent a severed leg in the post. But clever Robin DELETES messages from the senior partner and decides to ignore him. As you do ‼️ She is so smart.

And consistently ignores warnings and guidance from a partner with a lot more experience than her. Luckily it's fiction, so the author can make it work out for her, without damage.

[thegreendress]

They're here and they're beautiful 😍

Like an idiot, I cut the box open with scissors and sliced Career of Evil - ironic since Robin is also sliced?

Three more days until the collection is compete!

[cormfan-blog]

So, the whole writing notes and hiding them in a plastic rock, the "blind spot" in the fence was all so NOBODY, but Will and Lin could detect robs moving around the compound at night.🤔 And edensor could conveniently find the rock, imprints on the paper etc, so when he was FINALLY able to miraculously steal £££ from mazu, he would know where to escape from AND had a road map to the Agency. 🤔🙄🤯 Which, of course, he WOULDN'T have if the Agency had SENSIBLY used a burner phone.🤦‍♀️It's still a huuuge stretch about how he connected robs, Cormoran and the Agency, no matter "how bright" he is. And, of course, robs can't feel good about him getting out... she's got to keep wallowing in "self pity" about the suicide that is NOT their fault.

No wonder I won't be reading anymore of this series. 😕 jkr is mashing so many plots into one book, just so robs [read jkr] can be "a hero" OR victim, the books are becoming nonsense. Plus the teen romance... I knew you'd be there... [Of course, he'd be there. It's fiction; SHE'S the hero who MUST be saved]. AND it's a romantic saga, featuring 2 detectives as the leads. So, we must have the protagonists for now.

I've yet to find this compelling. The book is better described as underwhelming, with the author trying too hard. It certainly is better than 🖤, but that's not hard.